Patrick Collisons Questions

# Patrick Collisons Questions - Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?** - Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?** - How do you ensure an adequate replacement rate in systems that have no natural way to die?** - How do we help more experimental cities get started?** - How do people decide to make major life changes?** - Why are there so many successful startups in Stockholm?** - Is Bloom’s “Two Sigma” phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?** - How can we better understand the dynamics of progress in science?** - Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?** - What’s the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?** - What’s the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?** - What’s the right way to understand and model personality?** - Could there be more good blogs?** - Why are programming environments still so primitive?** - What does religion cause?** - Why is there no canon for life’s most important questions?** - Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?** - Why isn’t China (yet) producing a lot of top-tier research?** - Why don’t we build nice neighborhoods any more?** - What influences when people act in accordance with their self-interest and when they don’t?** - What’s going on with infrastructure?** - Why did climatic variability suddenly decline in the Holocene period?** From [[Patrick Collison]]  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Patrick+Collisons+Questions) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Patrick+Collisons+Questions)